projects
Civic Life tour (current)
The CIVIC LIFE tour is a compendium of selected CIVIC LIFE films - including the award winning films, WHO KILLED BROWN OWL and JOY - offering an intriguing insight into the distinctive and compelling body of work that has informed the making of our critically acclaimed debut feature HELEN.
Civic Life: Singapore (current)
CIVIC LIFE: SINGAPORE is a major arts project which brings together artists, communities and audiences to explore, question and celebrate ideas of community, identity and belonging through film and writing. The project was inspired by our acclaimed CIVIC LIFE project, an ongoing series of short films exploring cinematically the relationship between community and place.
Helen (2008)
Our debut feature film HELEN premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2008 before going on to screen at over 50 film festivals worldwide. HELEN has won many awards and nominations and is available on DVD and to download in the UK and Ireland and US and is on release in France (KMBO).
Civic Life (2004 - ongoing)
Since July 2003 we have worked on a unique and richly cinematic series of films made in negotiation with local residents and community groups. At the centre of the work is the relationship these communities have to the environments in which they live and work. All the CIVIC LIFE films were shot on 35mm cinemascope making extensive use of the long take.
Catalogue (2003)
CATALOGUE is an alternative A - Z fo London. Filmed throughout 26 London locations each short film depicts a silent journey through a specific location and imagines the narratives that might unfold in these strangely empty London landscapes. CATALOGUE extends our interest in urban space and the relationships people have to those spaces through emotions, memory, dreams and social situations.
minute by minute (2002)
For MINUTE BY MINUTE we worked with 8 Newham artists and filmmakers to create 24 x 1min films shot on location in Newham and made specifically for the internet.
map50 (2001)
MAP50 is a web based narrative set in North East London that is played out over 63 episodes. MAP50 follows a 24 hour cycle in the life of one woman who struggles to survive on the streets of Hackney. MAP50 includes contributions from Chris Dorley-Brown, The Max Factory, Roney Fraser-Munroe, pleasant-net and Alan Howley.
lostcause 1-10 (2000)
LOSTCAUSE 1-10 is a sci-fi narrative for the web that is told in 10 parts. Using an evocative sound score, LOSTCAUSE 1-10 follows a woman as she makes her way through a futuristic city intent on finding and ultimately blowing up the head quarters of the Chemi-drome Corporation. LOSTCAUSE 1-10 very consciously makes reference to a number of classic sci-fi films including La Jetee and Alphaville and is, in many ways, an attempt to look at the notion of narrative as experienced on the web. LOSTCAUSE 1-10 was commissioned as part of the Irish Cultural Programme for Expo 2000, Hannover.